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  r83705 | giampaolo.rodola | 2010-08-04 11:02:27 +0200 (mer, 04 ago 2010) | 1 line

  fix issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly (patch by Alexander Shigin). Merged from 2.7 branch.
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+- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
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 - Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
   encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.